Its a New Day

This week we had 2 birthdays. Tuesday was mom's 55th birthday! And Wednesday was Analia's. She turned 2. She is quite the chatterbox and people often looked surprised at how well she speaks because she is a little squirt. She LOVES to snuggle - by FAR the most snuggly of all the kids. You can be sitting down and suddenly Analia has quietly crawled up into your lap and is sucking her thumb and twirlling material in her fingers. Very sweet.

Yesterday I received a letter in the mail that my MRI is booked for February 21, 2012 at 1:10 am. Yep - am. The tremor has been a bit less this week (though it started up again last night - obviously stress is a trigger for it) and because it has been less I was able to get a lot of hand written letters done. The last 2 weeks I have also been back to The Migraine Clinic. I should really see about sleeping there on the Wednesday nights as it is probably the best sleep I get all week - that little nap in between sessions. The room is toasty warm, it is a nice hard bed, a dark room and quiet :). Otherwise, nothing unusal has been going on there - just the same. I hope to be able to go and buy a bed frame this weekend. I was thinking originally that instead of buying a bed, setting it up and then having to take it apart and move it again in 3-6 months I would just sleep on a mattress on the floor - but my sleep has been terrible since being at the rental. True, it usually takes time to adj...

It is very interesting to listen to what the kids are saying and see what they are thinking about the whole move/baby situation. These are just a few of the things that have been heard lately: Friday the kids had a PD day and they were told the night before they were going to have a surprise. They were trying to guess what it was: T: Aunt Ben (yes... he is learning rhyming words and discovered that Ben rhyms with Jen so that is now my new name) is the sturprise that we are moving back to our house? I miss my bed. (a little heartbreaking to hear him say that). The next morning: T: Auntie Ben, I know!! Is the sturprise that mommy is going to have the babies today!!??!! On Thursdays when I get home from work, Hannah always says: "Aunt Jen. Sit down so I can check you head". She then proceeds to climb up my lap and grabbing my head in her hands checks the top of my head. After serious searching "Aunt Jen!!! I see some red - the doctor made you bleed today! Julia wants to ...

Today, for some reason, seems to be a difficult day. I feel on the verge of tears and frustration and would rather just curl back in bed than do anything else. It hasn't been a bad week - not fantastic but not bad. I was home sick Monday, had a 9-10 most nights -but 6-8's during the day so that's not too bad, and the tremor still continues. Not as constant but still there. I think that I'm just feeling frustrated because I have a hard time writing (and my job entails 95% of things to be handwritten) and because of that it takes me 10 times as long to do something as simple as address and envelope. (Times that by 3 per student and 8-10 students a day it takes all day to process a few lessons!) The thing that crosses my mind right now is haven't I learned to give up things and be patient? I already have stopped so much - doing anything at church, helping my friends/sisters as much as I'd like, playing music (though I suppose it helps that I don't even have a p...

Just when I thought things were 'normal' again, this week brought other things up. On Christmas day my right arm started shaking. At first I thought that it was the sign that I had a migrain coming (as my arm often starts to shake before the BIG ONE comes) but after an hour nothing happened. Just shaking. I talked to BA and she thought it might just be a pinched nerve so I didn't think anything else of it. Every other day for the next week it would shake. I went to the chiropractor and he agreed that it might be a pinched nerve and did an adjustment. The next week it was still shaking and more often. The chiropractor said that he noticed that my right hand was a different colour and colder than the left and said that it looked like my 1st rib was out of place and could be pushing on the nerve. He tried a different (and much more painful adjustment) and said he'd hoped he would have heard a pop, but nothing happened. I went in 3 more times and would get a few hours of re...

It seems that we are back in a 'normal' routine again. Saturday morning Hannah and I made the beds, cleaned the bathrooms, folded laundry, vacuumed and did the dishes. A couch was brought to the house (so now more than 2 people can sit comfortably in the living room) and another chair for the kitchen. Ryan was off for work at the crack of dawn. Lunches were made and the kids were off to school this morning. Julia waved sadly from the window as Rach finishes getting ready to go to her appointments this morning. Life continues to go on. And that is a really nice feeling.

Just a quick update on the goings on of this weekend. Saturday and Monday we spent some time at the house getting out clothing, blankets and bedding and photo albums. Monday night things were moved into a farm house a 5 minute walk from Ryan's parents and a 5 minute drive from Mike & Karen. It is a large house with 5 bedrooms upstairs (the kids were thrilled to show me their new rooms last night. T's is beside my room AND he has a door to the bathroom in his room and H&J have super soft red shag carpet) and an eat in kitchen, living room, dining room, laundry/mud room all on the main floor (with a second bath) and a sun room of sorts that we'll use for storage (strollers and things that take up lots of room). It was very clean (though we still wiped down the kitchen and bathrooms and vacuumed) and fresh. There is lots of big window so natural light is everywhere. There is a field around the house (that Ryan planted) so it will be fun to watch whatever grows there - ...

Friday morning I left work a bit early because I had a migraine. I had hoped to go home and have a sleep and then be able to work on the quilts that I had cut out for Rachel's twins later in the afternoon/evening. When I got out of my car I noticed that the steps from the garage to the house were wet and thought that was odd. When I opened the door, water poured into the garage. There was about 2-3 inches of water on the floor. It sounded like there was a waterfall somewhere in the house and as I looked into the kitchen, water was pouring (like a waterfall) from the ceiling and through the light fixtures. I raced upstairs to see water gushing like a geyser from the tube from behind the toilet. I managed to have the sense of mind to turn off the water valve to stop the water from flowing. I then threw down some towels and raced downstairs to call my brother in law, Mike. As I was talking to Karen on the phone I just kept thinking "the walls are peeing". The water wa...